Softwares store on share network for deployment

Usage and Config Security
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(imported topic written by sandesh91)

Hi

Can we store all license software on Share network which are getting deployed by bifix where we have limited administrator access for that path.

Cause after deploying any software from bigfix the set of .exe not getting deleted from individual workstation so in this scenario anyone can use that .exe or complete package for 2nd time installation,so how we can restrict this via bigfix.

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(imported comment written by sandesh91)

Hi All

Is there any updates on above mention issues.Can we resolve this.

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(imported comment written by JackCoates91)

BigFix (and many other tools for this function) trickles the installation packages down to the device for installation, after which they will be cached for a short amount of time before aging out. If your users do not have administrator access to their devices they will not be able to access this cache or install software from it. If they do, then they will have access to the software that you’ve given them access to.

To make it work like you’re asking you can use action script to access the network drive, bearing in mind the following facts:

  1. you’ll be running as the local system account, so set permissions on your share appropriately.

  2. SMB has no bandwidth control.

  3. BigFix is designed to do tasks quickly and in parallel.

Items two and three combined mean that you can accidentally DDOS yourself if you’re not careful. Use the time controls to spread activities out.